RedBull Kludge As you know, a Rube Goldberg Machine is a pointlessly complex machine that performs a simple, even mundane task. Though usually, Rube Goldbergs...
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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AIRING DOWN FOR CASUAL OVERLANDERS I get a lot questions about how, when, and why to air down your tires when you are driving on dirt...
I’m all for being a proud dad, but you can’t take a diaper bag to a monster truck show. In that snarling, spark spewing, ripped t-shirt wearing melee of fuel...
It’s easy to get into the habit of buying everything you need off the shelf, and certainly, I am guilty of that more often than not. But still, if you can make...
Found this post on Stumblr about simple animations that explain somewhat complex machines. My favorite is the Malta Cross, or Geneva Mechanism. This is a drive mechanism...
Ray Bradbury in 1923 in Green Town, Ill. “When I was born in 1920,” he said in 2000, “the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV...
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Cool Places: Nevada Discovery Museum
Last year the Nevada Discovery Museum opened in Reno, NV and gave the Biggest Little City an awesome place for resident and visiting families to explore, play and learn...
The awesome guys behind Mythbusters, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, have a new science and engineering based reality show where contestants compete to build a better...
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How Qubica AMF Model 82-90 XL Pinspotters Work (Video)
How a Pinspotting Machine Works from Gizzard Stone on Vimeo. They put a curtain up to protect the secret, but I was able to sneak behind it and find out how a pin...
Back in 1930 when the United States most iconic sky scraper, The Empire State Building, was constructed it required the labor of 3,400 human beings lifting, pulling...